by Monika, on July 02 2015

A lot of business owners and developers were expecting that Magento 2.0 will be launched in the start of 2015. However so far it hasn't. There is a lot of buzz happening about the Magento 2 and its exclusive business-friendly features.

According to Wiki, "The Magento platform is a flexible open source e-commerce platform written in PHP. It empowers merchants to set up and run online stores trading goods, electronic downloads, and services."

It's just 5 years since Magento is launched, and it has turned out to be an inevitable online business solution which has been downloaded for more than 4 million times. There are many other reasons why Magento is so efficacious, above that Magento 2.0 is on the way! Now, it will probably be launched by the end of this year. Let's study what are the most exciting features for Magento 2.0 now?

What is Magento 2.0?

Magento 2.0 is a forthcoming future version of the Magento eCommerce software, which is even now in the development stage. This technology is developed with the aim to empower developers efficiently address the needs of merchants. The Magento team is endeavoring to build momentous architectural changes to increase the performance, decrease the upgrade efforts, simplify the customization process, update the technology stack and enhance the engagement with the developer community.

Moreover, Magento is definitely a leading e-commerce solution which can boost your business. While Magento 1.x proved to be a positive hit with most business entrepreneurs, it's time for a new-fangled and enhanced version to work in tandem with online stores and elevate the businesses. Magento 2.0 has created a lot of curio pertaining to its features and layouts. Here are a few interesting improvements in Magento 2.0 that you must know. These features will beyond doubt set standards for the coming year, as far as eCommerce business matters.

Let's talk about some of the interesting features of Magento 2.0.

Compatible with More Platforms

Magento 2.0 will run on PHP 5.3 and Zend Framework as 1.0. And it will support Oracle, MSSQL, and some other database also. This is a good update for Windows Platform Server. We all are seeing that Magento is evolving and seeking to support many more popular platform rapidly.

Performance Improvement

Performance and pace were constantly a challenge for Magento so it is recognized as resource hungry and not proficient. We all have seen that the team of Magento has kept improving the performance of Magento version after version. With the 2.0, the performance of Magento will be no less than 20% faster than the latest Magento 1.x versions. Thus, this will hugely transform the performance of Magento as a platform.

Expeditious Customization

Magento possesses a huge community of developers doing several customizations for their merchants. Also, there are numerous extensions available in the Magento marketplace. In Magento 2.0, the customization process is simplified to aid the developers make more extensions, enable swift implementations, wipe out duplicate code, proffer plug-in support and restructure the coding the process.

Testing-friendly

Actually, code testing is a herculean task that has been perturbing Magento developers since all these years. Thanks to the constant efforts put in by the gigantic Magento community for Magento 2.0 which is 100% testing-friendly. To put it plain, the most recent version of Magento is fortified with an impeccable testing framework that can be utilized for performing a set of tests comprising: Integration Tests, Static Tests, Legacy and Migration Tests, Unit Tests, JavaScript Unit Tests and Performance Tests.

Simple frontend development

Magento developers now can very easily provide a new esthetic and experience to the site without altering the site functionality, using less CSS preprocessor and modern HTML5 themes.

Greater engagement with the community

Another good advantage of Magento 2.0 is high engagement with the vast community. With the help of Magento 2.0 webinars and distinct events, the platform more augmented for the community.

Directories Structure

Magento makes use of Zend Framework, but it's difficult to find this information as the directories structure of Magento 1.x series is pretty dissimilar from the Zend Framework. The directories structures for Magento 2.0 would be much related to the Zend Framework. This is very good for theme development as elements like Layout Templates, CSS, Images, JavaScript turns out to be more flexible. Now, you can manage all of them within a module folder.

Steadfast JQuery

In the previous version, prototypes were used as the main JavaScript library as jQuery which wasn't quite stable make use of. Nevertheless with Magento 2.0, things have transformed. The community called for jQuery and prototype which has been replaced with JQuery in the latest version.

Amazing User Experience (UX)

The interface for the backend has become more user-friendly as compared to earlier versions. Users can now view the statistics for each store with the help of scope filter. With the help of menu system designed two of the management functions are executed i.e. eCommerce and system. Flat design has been espoused to display the various elements of the menu system-product, content report, marketing etc. The product manager interface has also been enriched for Magento 2.0 such that you can edit product details with effortlessly.

There is no doubt to the fact that Magento 2.0 has certainly brought in some fresh and implausible features to enhance the interface and experience on the whole for Magento developers and users. There are some remarkable features that you can anticipate which will simplify customizing and editing, which will help most developers in developing successful e-store.

Monika

Monika Jain is an enthusiastic Business Development Executive who takes care of the social media marketing bit, new business acquisition and client relationship management with a flair. She is extremely competitive when it comes to Business and...